Comments on: Moving the Ancient Boundaries – II http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/ a physician looks at medicine, religion, politics, pets, & passion in life Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Moving the Ancient Boundaries - IV | The Doctor Is In http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10110 Moving the Ancient Boundaries - IV | The Doctor Is In Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:22:25 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/#comment-10110 [...]    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim    ♦ Part 3 — Undermining Civil [...] [...]    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim    ♦ Part 3 — Undermining Civil [...]

]]> By: Moving the Ancient Boundaries - III | The Doctor Is In http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10066 Moving the Ancient Boundaries - III | The Doctor Is In Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:39:14 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/#comment-10066 [...] March 27th, 2007 · No Comments This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim [...] [...] March 27th, 2007 · No Comments This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim [...]

]]> By: Take a minute or two | truegrit http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10038 Take a minute or two | truegrit Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:13:28 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/#comment-10038 [...] might want to read both a news article, ‘Church-State Question Before Justices‘, and an essay by Dr. Bob in juxtaposition. “Moving the Ancient Boundaries” is the second part …and, well, [...] [...] might want to read both a news article, ‘Church-State Question Before Justices‘, and an essay by Dr. Bob in juxtaposition. “Moving the Ancient Boundaries” is the second part …and, well, [...]

]]> By: Grumpy Old Man http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10021 Grumpy Old Man Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:47:24 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/#comment-10021 An important piece. I especially liked the "find a rebel" concept. Two points: a big part of this process is the commodification of everything, abetted by merchandising. The Ché Guevara T-shirt is an emblem of this. Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Can we say that if everything is defined by price, nothing has intrinsic value? Second, although I'm old enough to believe everything is going to Hell in a handbasket, really I'm not certain things are worse today, just bad in a different way. Go back in history in 50-year jumps and you'll see what I mean: 1950--segregation and conformism; 1900--child labor and the ostentation of moguls; 1850--slavery and mass drunkenness. . . etc. etc. and so forth. Ours is not the first generation to live in a fallen world. An important piece. I especially liked the “find a rebel” concept.

Two points: a big part of this process is the commodification of everything, abetted by merchandising. The Ché Guevara T-shirt is an emblem of this. Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Can we say that if everything is defined by price, nothing has intrinsic value?

Second, although I’m old enough to believe everything is going to Hell in a handbasket, really I’m not certain things are worse today, just bad in a different way. Go back in history in 50-year jumps and you’ll see what I mean: 1950–segregation and conformism; 1900–child labor and the ostentation of moguls; 1850–slavery and mass drunkenness. . . etc. etc. and so forth. Ours is not the first generation to live in a fallen world.

]]> By: Vicki Small http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10012 Vicki Small Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:13:07 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2007/02/11/ancient-boundaries-2/#comment-10012 My introduction to post-modernism came in a graduate class utilizing post-modern British literature. Many of us struggled to find value in some of the pieces assigned to us. We finally read one play in which I absolutely could find not a shred of socially-redeeming value; quite to the contrary, it reflected Man's inhumanity to anything more vulnerable than oneself, to the extent that two "men" amused themselves by throwing lit cigarettes onto an infant in a carriage, finally setting the thing on fire and killing the baby outright. I had enough of post-modernism in that semester to last me more than one lifetime . . . and, yet, we're living in it. Come, Lord Jesus! My introduction to post-modernism came in a graduate class utilizing post-modern British literature. Many of us struggled to find value in some of the pieces assigned to us. We finally read one play in which I absolutely could find not a shred of socially-redeeming value; quite to the contrary, it reflected Man’s inhumanity to anything more vulnerable than oneself, to the extent that two “men” amused themselves by throwing lit cigarettes onto an infant in a carriage, finally setting the thing on fire and killing the baby outright. I had enough of post-modernism in that semester to last me more than one lifetime . . . and, yet, we’re living in it. Come, Lord Jesus!

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